5 · emir

206 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 105-136 -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
5 · BARS 105-106
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 43 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 10-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 13 sections: 96 keep time, 49 are fills, 11 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-135.

PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
VERSE
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNS11ACHD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 5?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 5 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 5?

15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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